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A spot; a stain, as that caused by rust.
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Fine soft earth, or earth easily pulverized, such as constitutes soil; crumbling or friable soil.
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The earth; the ground.
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The matter of which anything is formed; material.
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In paleontology, the external impression of an organic body, test, or skeleton in the rocks: contrasted with cast, which is an internal impression. See cast, 14.
To cover with mold.
To grow musty; become moldy; contract mold.
To cause to contract mold: as, damp molds cheese.
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A minute fungus or other vegetable growth of a low type, especially one of such vegetable organisms as appear on articles of food when left neglected, decaying matter, bodies which lie long in warm and damp air, animal and vegetable tissues, etc.; in a somewhat looser sense, mustiness or incipient decay.
To form into a particular shape; shape; model; fashion; cast in or as in a mold; specifically, to form articles of clay upon a whirling table or potter's wheel, or in molds which open and close like those employed in metal-casting.
In ship-building, to give the required depth and outline to, as ships' timbers.
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An obsolete form of mole.
Grown musty; molded; moldy.
To stain, as with rust.
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A form or model pattern of a particular shape, used in determining the shape of something in a molten, plastic, or otherwise yielding state.
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Form; shape; cast; character.
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Specifically, in founding, the form into which a fused metal is run to obtain a cast.
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In terra-cotta work, the plaster forms used in making terra-cotta architectural ornaments.
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In stucco-work, a templet or former for shaping cornices, centerpieces, etc.
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In paper-manufacture, a frame with a bottom of wire netting which is filled with paper-pulp that in draining away leaves a film of pulp which is formed into a sheet of paper.
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In ship-building, the pattern used in working out the frames of a vessel.
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A former or matrix used in various household operations, as an incised stamp of wood for shaping and ornamenting pats of butter, or a form of metal, earthenware, etc., for giving shape to jellies, blanc-mange, ices, etc.
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In cookery, a dish shaped in a mold: as, a mold of jelly.
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In anatomy, same as fontanelle, 2.
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Among gold-beaters, a number of pieces of vellum or a like substance, laid over one another, between which the leaves of gold are laid for the final beating.